Home-made BBQ

It all started when Catechol casually mentioned to me that there's such a thing called ready-made BBQ set, where the charcoal, fire starter, matches and grill are all packaged and positioned for you nicely in a neat aluminium foil grill, and I didn't believe him... So naturally he just had to prove me wrong by searching for it.

We didnt find it in 2 separate branches of ntuc (the ntuc auntie had no idea what he was talking abt), we didn't find it in the tbp coldstorage, we didn't find it in giant... And of course, with every place we went to, my glee and teasing escalates exponentially while Catechol began to have some serious self-doubts as to whether he was hallucinating...

Then, finally, we found it in the PS branch of carrefour.. and boy, did i never hear the end of that, I even had to do an embarrassing forfeit as a consequence of losing the bet... So we came to the conclusion that since we had already hunted half of s'pore for it, we might as well buy it and put it to good use.. Besides, I still don't believe it can be done...

And guess what.. It didn't work lor! The lousy thing didn't even come with the traditional fire starter but with a few pieces of tissue paper thrown in together with the charcoal, which I assume was what they intend for us to start the fire with... These ang mohs who designed the thing must have been watching too much survivor liao...

Anyway, I told this whole sorry tale to my mum and she went like "eh?! I think we have bbq at home lar..." and went on to pull this huge plastic bag from some ulu corner of my kitchen, above my fridge. And unearthed a compact bbq grill set with a neat little compartment for charcoal and a handy grill, we even have those long professional looking skewers loh... I stared open-mouthed at all these and felt very deprived, "you mean all along we had this at home and never once in my 20years (round down lar) you made bbq for me at home???!!!!! Then you keep here for what?"
And my mum said in all seriousness, "to pass to you when you get married lor! And btw, we also have a tepanyaki grill and a steamboat set." -_-

So after years of feeling jealous when delicious bbq smells waft down from my neighbours', I finally had my own bbq.
And to prove that my cooking is not always a flop, here's some photos:


Chicken wings and Pork With Red pepper skewers
Very yummy, even Catechol said so. AND i didn't have GE the day after.


BBQ Salmon, which was super duper delicious. Recipe courtesy of Jamie Oliver. It's not that I am auntie for watching his cooking show, it's just that I've got a fascination for men who can cook.



Got alot more food but I was too busy cooking.. and eating...


There's Sandy wanting a piece of the action.


She's probably wondering why we're spending so much time in the balcony, which is also known to her as "the privileged ground on which she hurriedly go to shit when somebody forgets to close the balcony door".


Fireworks for the Mooncake Festival at Chinatown. They were right outside my house, at my eye-level, so it was almost as though it was for my own personal enjoyment.

Did you notice how suddenly we get fireworks for every little festival now? I remember last time I used to be like those romantic, whimsical girls who love fireworks and would 'ooh' and 'aah' over them.. Now whenever anyone asked me if i wanted to watch fireworks with them, I just say I can watch them from the comfort of my own home, with my dog. In actual fact, unless the fireworks were at Chinatown, Sandy and I usually can't be bothered to even venture out to the balcony to take a peep.